First-Year Green Bay Coach Doug Gottlieb, Former Cowboys Player, On Coaching In Stillwater

Doug Gottlieb meets with the media after his first game as a head coach

Opening Statement

First I I really want to think Coach, for playing this game. I make no secret I play it because I wanted this game for myriad of reasons, uh but mostly for those three people. We moved them across the country a bunch of times. They've been through a lot and I just I just wanted to have them see their dad coach a little bit.

On OSU Basketball

They're just as advertised, you know, plays fast and they play hard and physical is help and they just force out with physicality, but I so appreciative of Coach letting us and playing this game, playing at the first game of the year when Pete doesn't really know what he has yet. He definitely didn't know what we had.

On how he felt going into the game.

It felt like a real game. It really did, but I mean, you looked down and you see Coach's signature, you know, you see America's brightest orange, you know, you hear the "Hey" song. We're going to beat the hell to you and you realize, hey, that's me, right? It don't know just really cool. It felt gratifying. I don't know if nerves is the right word, but is there more nerves going into it knowing it's first game coaching at college team or it being just joy and gratitude.